Friend, have you ever been to Qinghai?

Castle peak, blue sea, flowing clouds on the mountains, and Qinghai in the distance are coming to you with pastoral songs. All the girls who graze in Qinghai have sweet wishes. All those who struggle there have the direction of victory.

I love Qinghai, which is located on the roof of the world. This Yellow River valley is my favorite place. In spring and summer, I am intoxicated in the wavy rape fields. In the endless wilderness, I can see the sky and grassland and the original ecological scenery of cattle and sheep. The dreamy Qinghai Lake is embedded in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In the evening, sitting in a chair by the lake, blowing a breeze and looking at the endless lake, the whole person is relaxed at that moment. Enough rest, go to a small restaurant nearby, order a small row of sweet and sour rice, cold day lily, steamed yellow croaker, order a bottle of highland barley wine, and chat with three or two friends.

Speaking of Qinghai Lake, in addition to the charming scenery, we have to mention the yellow croaker growing in the lake. Yellow croaker is famous for its freshness and delicacy. However, due to a large number of human fishing, the number of yellow croaker has dropped sharply. Fishing has been banned in this lake in the past few years. Because yellow croaker only grows two or two pieces of meat a year and has a lot of thorns, it needs enough patience to eat. I remember my father often bought yellow croaker when I was a child, and I lived in the village when I was a child. I slowly swayed to the spring with a small basin and scissors, washed a dozen fish in one afternoon, and took them home to stew in aluminum pot. My mother cooked two dishes and a soup, steamed rice and waited for dinner. My brother and I are always in a hurry and are often entangled in fishbones. The two men ran to the kitchen like playing games and picked up the vinegar pot. The swim bladder in Huangyu is really delicious, because it is small and can cook more than a dozen pieces in one pot, so there will be more swim bladders, and my parents are reluctant to give them to my brother and me. This is the most intimate smell in my memory. Family relationships can often be reflected at the dinner table. My family has a high demand for food. My mother can cook great noodles, cold dishes and soup. My father is suitable for handling all kinds of seafood and meat. I am very satisfied with the food at home, and I miss my parents' skills very much when I go to college.

Of course, there are many delicious foods worth mentioning in Qinghai. When I arrive in Xining, I will have a bowl of steaming sour soup noodles in the morning, and I can arrange it by the way the next day. Those who like beef offal come to beef offal, and those who like mutton offal come to prickly heat. Cut them into small pieces and put them in the soup until it becomes soft. Mmm ~ delicious. In Qinghai, I dare not clap my chest to ensure that the quality of beef and mutton is absolutely no problem. The beef and mutton here are not cheaper than those in big cities. Most cattle and sheep grow up eating grass and run all over the mountain every day. Fat thighs are simply delicious. I like mutton in Qinghai very much. The taste of mutton is so weak that I can't eat it all the time, because I didn't like mutton very much since I was a child. Of course, I have to eat whole sheep and kebabs. Clear-water instant-boiled mutton is very demanding on meat quality, because my uncle has his own farm, so if he wants to eat it, he can choose mutton ribs and cook them on the spot. The neck, head and hoof of sheep are roasted with fire, and the meat on the leg of sheep is used to make kebabs. Besides, we haven't told you yet. Qinghai people usually use it to hold blood sausage and cook it in a pot. The pot boiled and fished out, and even the chopping board didn't have time to split in half. Adults can't wait to taste it. Eating meat is so cool. We like road trip, all kinds of beaches and Shan Ye, which are good places for us to play. Let's rent a wok, kill two chickens and add a sheep. Here it is. Yes, this is our fun all day.

Girls are the cutest creatures. What is necessary for shopping? Yes, milk tea, of course, but in Qinghai, we drink sweet fermented milk tea, which is really delicious. I call it by my real name. No one can refuse its temptation. I don't accept any refutation here. I've been drinking since I was a child. Sweet candied fruit is made of naked oats and distiller's yeast. When I was a child, I heard an old man shouting to sell sweet preserves in a deep alley. I rushed out of the house with five dollars and a basin. The old man only scooped up a small bowl of sweet candied fruit and put it in the basin, then added soup. Actually, soup is the essence. I used it every time when I was a kid. When I grow up, there are few such pure candied fruits. It will become an improved version of candied milk tea, which is still delicious. Tired of shopping, the first choice for girls' lunch is mala Tang. Pick a basket of vegetables, and then ask for a large portion of stuffed skin, as well as stem skin, rice skin and rolled skin. Hot and sour can really stimulate taste buds and relieve fatigue, and you won't be tired after shopping all afternoon.

Students are a huge group, and they may eat milk and egg paste cooked by their mothers or grandmothers for breakfast. That kind of sweetness and warmth will make us go to school early and start sleeping, which is really comfortable. There will be more choices at noon. Do you know that firecrackers can be eaten in Qinghai except friends? Fireworks are a kind of pasta with national characteristics. After the spicy noodles are cooked without soup, cut them into short strips with a knife, pour in fried ingredients such as vermicelli, minced beef, green pepper and cucumber slices, and then add seasonings to stir fry until they are tasty. The cooked noodles are really delicious, and the method is somewhat similar to fried noodles. Noodles are long and then short, cooked and then fried, and noodles and vegetables are mixed together. When eating, you will feel the pleasure of firecrackers, and the burning feeling will make you want to stop. In Qinghai, firecrackers noodles are deeply loved by people of all ethnic groups, which are beneficial to the kidney, clearing away heat and relieving cough. Similar pasta and dry mixing are a kind of mixed noodles in the northwest, and dry pulling is also a kind of mixed noodles. The difference between dry pulling and dry mixing is that dry pulling is done in a plate and dry mixing is done in a big bowl. Dry mixing will be drier than dry mixing, but it will be accompanied by a bowl of sour soup. You can eat noodles in Qinghai with cold dishes, beef or eggs. There won't be any difficulty in choosing a student party. You can eat noodles in different ways every week. On the way back to school, I drank a bottle of Qinghai old yogurt with my friends. It's simply beautiful.

Qinghai old yogurt and candied fruit have the same status in my heart. As a Qinghai person, it is impossible to give up these things. Of course, you need to add a kang mutton pot, onions, lamb chops, intestines, potatoes (called potatoes in Qinghai), green peppers, cumin, ginger, black pepper and garlic. These are all essential. You can't imagine potatoes. The pot used in Yang Kang pot is aluminum pot. After a long period of kang, the skin of meat and potatoes is crisp and shiny. It is delicious.

There are many ways to make potatoes, which can be said to have brought its value to the extreme in Qinghai. Of course, lamb chops can be replaced with ribs, Tujia chicken, pork belly and steak, but potatoes must be available. This is the protagonist. At our dinner table, everyone loves potatoes far more than meat. It's our favorite food in aluminum pot. In addition to the mutton pot, there are fried potatoes, fried potatoes, which can be put in rice, and shredded cold potatoes. In my mother's hand, a new dish, three gold and three silver, has been created, which is to wash potatoes and cut them into filaments, then fry them in an oil pan until they are golden, with mother's secret ingredients and sprinkle with coriander. This dish is simple and popular, and relatives and friends will definitely empty their plates within ten minutes when they come home.

Like mom? Young? Women need it from time to time? Play with friends (in Qinghai dialect, it is a small gathering between women, usually at other people's homes), and the activities of mothers are playing mahjong, and then jiaozi (Qinghai characteristics). They are made of soybeans, which are mushy and need to be constantly added with water during the production process. They always stir in the pot with a rolling pin to ensure its taste. After cooking, it is full of bean powder flavor, and the side dishes are shredded cucumber, shredded carrot and shredded leek. There is still some meat left, but cold dishes are essential, and they are basically eaten on the plate. Stir with a big iron spoon, put Chili oil, need a lot of oil, pour a lot of vinegar, a big spoon of leek is spicy, and put all kinds of side dishes on the side, which can be said to be perfect. Mothers are still very demanding about food. Besides, everyone can't finish a big pot. When going home, everyone should take a plate home, no matter who eats it, it will not be wasted. There must be a party between women and men. Take my wife and children to eat a bowl of steaming noodles and drink a bowl of sour soup on weekends, and then walk home slowly. Of course, on the way home, I will always be called by my old friends to play mahjong, fry some hard dishes at night and open two bottles of highland barley wine. This is the essence of real food. Even if you are drunk, you won't feel a headache when you get up the next morning. Qinghai people eat highland barley noodles and drink highland barley wine, just as Inner Mongolia people like to drink Dawusu. In the harvest season of highland barley, there are many small poles carrying baskets to sell highland barley in the street. This kind of highland barley is usually treated and rubbed with its skin. The skin of highland barley is very firm, so don't try it without calluses. Wash the skin and put it in a large pot. Sprinkle some salt and stir fry. Barley is sold by two, and the difference between one and two is only about eight to ten yuan.

Friend, have you ever tried local hot pot in Qinghai? It's a copper pot, and a circle around the pot is full of ingredients. Arranged neatly, there are radish skin, old tofu, potato pieces, beef slices, mutton slices, pork belly slices, vermicelli, sauerkraut and meatballs. When it is full, you can certainly satisfy it. When eating almost, you can drink a little soup, which is mixed with that fragrant taste. Although there is a lot of meat, I promise it is absolutely delicious. Eat whatever you want after eating this original pot. Another advantage of earthen hotpot is that it can be made in the wild, because we will like the landscape and grassland here very much, often go out to road trip and bring a copper pot. Before we leave, we will tidy up the ingredients in the pot, gather around when we are tired of singing and dancing, find some dry branches and put them at the bottom of the pot, pour in pure water and light a fire, so that we can eat this original ecological taste as soon as we open the pot. Do you yearn for such a life? Children will also bring their own tents, hammocks and the like. It won't be boring all day, and it won't give you a chance to sit and brush your mobile phone. Well, Qinghai will have a little more Sichuan flavor, and Sichuan's hot pot tastes good, but the specialty here is that snacks will be served with a cake. This is pancakes. The origin of the name is also interesting. In the past, oil was very precious, and everyone had ways to save oil. Housewives in Qinghai, in order to save fuel when baking cakes, picked up a small oil pan and baked cakes along the side of the pan. At that time, there were big pots in the countryside, and this action was like a dog peeing on the wall, so it was named? Dog urine cake

This is the soul of kneading dough, scalding it with boiling water, sprinkling pepper and salt, and watering the dog urine. Bean powder? Pour a small amount of rapeseed, roll it into long rolls, cut it into small doses, and roll it thin to make pancakes. This can definitely make people quickly experience the unique customs of Qinghai.

Deep in my memory, I still remember the grass noodles pinched by my grandfather, a kind of coarse grain noodles, which tastes a little tight and dark brown. I scooped half a bowl of noodles in the bowl, added some sugar, poured boiling water, and kneaded it into a ball with my hands. It was also delicious. This is what I remember most about being with my grandfather. I remember when I was a child, I was always reluctant to eat this. Grandpa always wants me to eat with him. I'm willing to make a deal with him. I ate grass noodles with him and asked him to cook milk tea for me. The milk tea cooked by grandpa is very strong and slightly salty. Because, Qinghai's milk tea is really made of that kind of milk tea, but it is very delicate. Tea is that kind of brick tea, and milk is fresh milk that doesn't stay overnight. Many people raise cattle in the countryside, so the milk source is really super good. After the milk tea is boiled, it will be thickened with salt, and a little ghee will be added. After melting, the tea residue will be filtered out. Salty milk tea is also the taste when I am with my grandfather. Grandpa has been gone for ten years, and I have never eaten grass noodles and drunk pure Qinghai milk tea. I don't want to ruin my time with my grandfather. It is sweet, it is happy, and it is the taste of childhood in my memory.

What friends from other places can bring back to Qinghai is also a problem. The first choice is beef jerky. Although it doesn't look good, if you know the goods, you will buy very good yak meat to dry. The nutritional value is really good. The well lane is the street I can remember. Snacks, souvenirs and specialties with special features are sold. Because there are many Tibetan and Hui compatriots in Qinghai, this street has strong ethnic characteristics. When you want to go back, you can take many things back, such as dried yak meat, butter tea, sheep whip, bullwhip, deer whip, black wolfberry, saffron, Kunlun Snow Chrysanthemum, Cordyceps sinensis, Tibetan shawl, fur, Tibetan silver jewelry, jade, dried cheese, and goat milk, if you can accept the taste of goat milk. These are very good choices.

Every place has its own characteristics. I hope you can come to Qinghai to feel the enthusiasm of Qinghai people, taste Qinghai cuisine, see the rape fields in Qinghai, see Qinghai Lake as far as the eye can see, take a walk in the sky ~ ~ Chaka Salt Lake, take a small train in the salt lake, and the breeze will definitely cure you. You have never been to Heima River to feel the sky here, and you have never seen the magical Daotang River. How can you stop? Come on, come on, I will wait for you in Qinghai, I will wait for you in this rape field, or I will look for you, but no matter how far I go, I love my home in Qinghai, the clear, ancient and beautiful Sanjiang, and I will crawl silently under my feet. ...